9 year old girl died after being forced to run for 3 hours by grandma&stepmom

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dainthomas

dainthomas

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BladeVenom said:
That sounds more like it. Running usually isn't considered a way to intentionally kill someone.
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Do you think it's a TOTALLY unexpected result? If somebody forced you to run for three hours without food or water, how do you think you would be doing? Now imagine you were a ~60 lb girl.

They'll probably get manslaughter, but in a just world their punishment would be the same treatment the girl got.
 
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Anonemous

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Authorities say Savannah was forced to run for three hours before she collapsed. They say the grandmother became angry when Savannah ate chocolate, which the girl was not supposed to eat because of a medical condition. Savannah was also allegedly made to carry about 10 pounds of wood while running, according to new information revealed at the hearing, Alabama's13.com reported.
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Wow, that's messed up...
 
SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

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What an insane way to discipline a child.

Is there any way that exercise could be used effectively as a punishment? It seems to fit cases where the child is overweight and sneaking food past their parents who are trying to keep them healthy. Perhaps when they are caught the parents could make them do enough exercise to burn off the offending snack as a punishment. That would have the added benefit of cluing them in on how hard it is to burn off even a small amount of food. That's what I thought was happening here, but the photo of the child doesn't show her to be overweight. What they made her do was also way over the top.

I suspect all that would do is associate exercise with punishment in their minds, thus ensuring that they never engaged in it on their own initiative though.
 
mikeymikec

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Anonemous said:
Wow, that's messed up...
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Yup. I wonder if the mother/grandmother were thinking something like "because kids these days get off too lightly! In our day, we were made to run three hours with a heavy load, and we thought that was getting off lightly"

<kid then dies>

"... or was that three minutes?"

Facepalm.
 
waggy

waggy

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I don't get it? 3 continues hours of running? as punishment? nothing the kid did deserves that!

I have thought about this whenever i see it on the news. it is so fucking sad.
 
mikeymikec

mikeymikec

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waggy said:
I don't get it? 3 continues hours of running? as punishment? nothing the kid did deserves that!
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Well yeah. The kid had a health condition, what better way to highlight that than to run her constitution right into the ground. Kids aren't grateful for what they've got these days!

In my day...

/s
 
shortylickens

shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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IT TOOK THREE FUCKING YEARS TO CONVICT HER???!!!!


I bet if the public actually knew what their courts were costing them they wouldnt put up with this kind of bullshit.
 
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nsafreak

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3 years to convict and many years for appeals, yep convicting criminals can be expensive.
 
madoka

madoka

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Reminds me of that five year old Indian slum boy who was forced to run "48 marathons, followed by a torturous 42-mile run in 93-degree heat that nearly kills the boy."
 
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